Boy's own story

From: The Spectator | Date: September 16, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Boy's own story

David Hughes

LIFE IN THE JUNGLE: MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Michale Heseltine Hoddler, L20, pp. 560

Yes, but what is he like? A political memoir is rarely kiss, let alone tell. They are written to set the record straight, to put posterity in the know, to correct future historians on their interpretation of momentous events, to bow out on a dignified but deafening ovation of well-chosen words but rarely to reveal the man. Without reading everyone else's apologia, a formidable task in an era when most politicians lack both style and eloquence, I find it impossible to judge who makes ...

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